I'm looking to build my own NAS (basically a DIY NAS) and I'm planning on doing it cheap, but not too cheap. One thing: I would invest in a RAID card setup but it's not a necessity. How should I start? Hardware / software? This is pretty much going to be used as a share hub at home, so 5-6...

My friend and I have been building our own home server that's going to be based off on Ubuntu with four different drives in RAID 10. It's going to be used for backup and NAS. But here's our big question: Should we build a NAS Server with a single Gigabit NIC? Thank you for your help.

I'm in the midst of building a large NAS box but I'm not which drive configuration is the best option for me. I thought about using a Areca ARC controller and hanging all 24 drives off of it. My friend came up with the idea of mounting all of it as one volume (due to the amount of data). We would...

I'm trying to build a NAS and I've figured out I can go two ways on doing this: Using a 1 24+ Port RAID controller that makes the whole array one single RAID 10 array Using 2 12+ Port RAID controllers making two separate RAID 10 arrays (12 drives per array) Here's my question: What's the biggest...

At my house, we have a Pentium 4 based Ubuntu server that we need to replace with a Intel Atom-based machine for our network services. We're thinking of using a low-powered NAS over a GbE with 1 TB of space and RAID. Is there something like this? Should we rather get a full size ATX mobo and...

We have a Synology DS213 that has two 600 GB drives on RAID 1. I think it was two nights ago, it reported that the second drive became degraded and we should replace it. But when we ran the SMART test, it said the drive was fine. Is there to actually confirm that the drive went bad?

I have two offices locations; one in Saudi and other in Egypt. Employees strength is max 50 on each site. Total 100 employees. What should be the server specs for domain controller for these employees. Which RAID is preferred to configure on the domain? Also we will implement File Server. Again...

I apologize if this is a dumb question but I was having a conversation with my friend about backups and he told me that RAID is not a backup. Is that true? What would be the difference between redundancy and a backup? Thanks!

I've been setting up a new backup server (using Symantec Backup Exec so that it stores hard disks instead of tape). This is because the size of our backup is outgrowing our tape capacity. But here's my question: Should I use RAID for the backup server? Thank you

We have a pretty good idea of how to apply RAID to spinning disks, and can appreciate the different kinds: RAID 0,1,5,6,10=1+0. I was recently at a presentation where a large document repository was being built exclusively with SSD, and no one had any comment on RAID. Do we have a good...

With respect to the tradeoff between redundancy vs. data protection, what recommendations can you make on RAID levels? Is it completely dependent on the environment, or are there clear advantages to using a RAID 5 over RAID 3, etc.?

My Centos RAID 1 newly added hard disk not booting in separate after synchronization of Data. I have created the RAID 1 device and made one of the device as failed and after that I have added the new hard disk with the machine and synchronisation went properly but the OS boots only when two hard...

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